AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK

- Edition #951 - August 20, 2017 -


Talent: DAVE SAWYER
Station: CJME Regina
Date:
June 25, 1984
Time: 47:04 (unscoped)
15:28 (scoped)

You've heard of ideas that were ahead of their time?

This idea was behind its time.

AM stereo was thought to be the saviour of AM radio in Canada and the U.S. when it came out in the '80s. Many stations adopted one of the four technologies - C-QUAM, Harris Corporation, Magnavox and the Kahn-Hazeltine System. But there were a multitude of problems. First, the competing technologies proved to be a problem as it confused consumers. Also, AM stereo was adopted too late as many listeners had moved to FM and weren't about to come back to AM, which was moving into news-talk sports programming anyway. Interest in the technology faded and by the early 2000s hardly any stations were using it. What started out with so much promise was a forgotten relic.

One of the Canadian stations to use the C-QUAM system - which became the standard in Canada - was CJME. The Regina station went on the air in 1959 with an easy-listening format, however it soon went Top 40. By the '90s they were an oldies outlet. The music died for CJME at midnight on September 7, 1998, when the station played its final song - "American Pie" by Don McLean. The next day they went to a news-talk format.

Enjoy Dave Sawyer on CJME in C-QUAM AM stereo (UNSCOPED) here.

Enjoy Dave Sawyer on CJME in C-QUAM AM stereo (UNSCOPED) here.
 

Enjoy Dave Sawyer on CJME in C-QUAM AM stereo (SCOPED) here.

Enjoy Dave Sawyer on CJME in C-QUAM AM stereo (SCOPED) here.



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